China Cultural Chronicles August 17, 2012

  • 西安#006

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    西安#006

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  • Forbidden City from Jingshan Park

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    Forbidden City from Jingshan Park

    It turned out to be a beautiful morning, so after an unfortunately late start I headed to the Forbidden City. Rather than wait for the gates to open, I walked to Jingshan Park to see the view — and rather wished I'd come here first!

    Dodging the pensioners doing their morning exercises (frequently in the best viewpoints, while ignoring the views), I decided to be Chinese and just pushed in to get what I wanted; in this case, a view of the Forbidden City under blue skies. You can already see the clouds beginning to return, but for a while at least I had what I wanted!

    This High Dynamic Range panorama was stitched from 33 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture. I decided to level the nearer wall of the Forbidden City, rather than the horizon, and I'm rather pleased with the effect.

    Original size: 14410 × 9602 (138.4 MP; 180.49 MB).

    Location: Jingshan Park, Beijing, China

  • Gordon Hall, Tientsin

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    Gordon Hall, Tientsin

    Original photograph, no details of photographer/date.

  • 西安#001

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    西安#001

  • Landscape for Nomads, Tibet 2012

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    Landscape for Nomads, Tibet 2012

    Like to see the pictures as LARGE as your screen? Just click on this Slideshow : www.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157630983897338/s...

    Settling nomads
    Government policy aims to settle more and more nomads. It says that this is aimed at improving the economic viability of animal husbandry and lessening the effects of natural disasters on the livelihood of Tibetan herdsmen.
    This allows the government to manage the nomadic population as it gives them fixed addresses.The Chinese government is removing the nomads from their traditional grasslands, sometimes forcibly, to exercise more control over the Tibetan population.


    Culture shock

    For most nomads, the transition to a more urban lifestyle is difficult.
    They are often settled in featureless blocks of housing by the side of roads or in newly created urban areas, and face the problem of creating an entirely new and sustainable livelihood.

    Approximately 40% of the ethnic Tibetan population is nomadic or semi-nomadic.
    www.humanrightshouse.org/Articles/11820.html

  • Startrails at Golog-Tibet

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    Startrails at Golog-Tibet

  • China 2012. Happy cooks.

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    China 2012. Happy cooks.

  • China 2012. Welcome !

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    China 2012. Welcome !

  • China 2012. Smiling hostess.

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    China 2012. Smiling hostess.

  • IMG_9566sa

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